Ursuline preps MBA students for 'triple bottom line' world

The college’s School of Graduate and Professional Studies this fall is launching a socially conscious Master of Business Administration program designed for students to “gain both a practical knowledge of modern business as well as an understanding of the new emerging economy.”

Gina Messina-Dysert, dean of the School of Graduate and Professional Studies, said in a statement announcing the new MBA program that concepts taught in it “will include the gift economy, the sharing economy, cooperative business models, collaborative leadership, corporate social responsibility and the triple bottom line,” often expressed as the “three Ps” of people, planet and profit.

To accommodate professionals, classes will be held one night per week, and each class will last for eight weeks. The courses will take place on Ursuline’s Pepper Pike campus as well as online. Registration is open for the program on www.ursuline.edu.

Nurete Brenner, director of the new MBA program, said the goal is to prepare students to be “socially conscious managers and collaborative leaders.” She said those characteristics dovetail with trends at large companies and health care providers, including the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and MetroHealth in Northeast Ohio.